Can They Prevent the Starliner From Colliding With the Space Station?
NASA Space Technology Home » Space » Can They Prevent the Starliner From Colliding With the Space Station?NASA is worried that multiple small reaction control system thrusters could fail while the Starliner is near the space station and cause a disaster. There are combinations of Starliner thrusters failures would make it become uncontrollable and cause a collision with the space station. The thrusters are needed later in the flight back to Earth to set up the critical de-orbit burn and entry in Earth’s atmosphere.Boeing Starliner software needs to be updated for it to be able to undock without crew onboard (even though it did this on the last test flight), and this will take a week. Boeing has DIFFERENT software for crewed and unmanned Starliner and it takes a week or more to...
